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• Community in mourning after girl, 5, killed outside primary school

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• Driver cracked open drink after car ploughed into family home, witnesses allege

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• BoM backflips on controversial rain radar on new website

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• Bank that sacked thousands of Aussies hit by $1.1 billion blow

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• If you have this passport, you might be called on for compulsory military service

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• Raiders star Papalii has intimidation court case halted

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• Man's new Tesla struck by suspected meteorite on remote Aussie highway

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• Mystery surrounds Darwin mum's 'bucket list' holiday death in Thailand

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• Australian YouTube family moves to UK to avoid upcoming social media ban

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• 'Orwellian': Trump team's latest courtroom move 'whitewashes history'

  The US Justice Department scrubbed mentions of the January 6 riot and Trump's social media posts from court documents.

• From lavish to bizarre: The gifts presented to Donald Trump by foreign leaders

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• Virginia Giuffre's family celebrates as Andrew loses 'prince' title

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• Bunnings, Kmart workers facing more than 1000 physical assaults a month

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• Millions facing storms 'every day' for nearly a week

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• Trump slashes refugee intake to 7500. It'll be mostly white South Africans

  No reason was given for the numbers, which are a dramatic decrease from last year's ceiling of 125,000 set under Democratic former president Joe Biden.